<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Sherryl Vint</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Professor</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Director, Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Editor, <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Editor, <a href="https://www.palgrave.com/in/series/15760" target="_blank"><i>Science and Popular Culture</i> book series </a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Joey Eschrich</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jpe@asu.edu">jpe@asu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 10:03<br>Subject: SFRA Review special issue, Us in Flux<br>To: Sherryl Vint <<a href="mailto:sherrylv@ucr.edu">sherrylv@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_3427684469140718691WordSection1"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I’m writing today because our Center for Science and the Imagination is partnering with the Science Fiction Research Association on a
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The special issue builds on our recent
<a href="https://csi.asu.edu/usinflux" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954f72">Us in Flux</span></a><span class="m_3427684469140718691apple-converted-space"> </span>project, which explores issues of community, collaboration, and collective imagination through stories and virtual events.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We’re seeking thinkpieces of 2000-3000 words that use Us in Flux, its guiding themes, and its stories as jumping-off points to examine speculative fiction and
 its interactions with a variety of mutable possible futures, and its intersections and collisions with real-world efforts to reimagine and redefine community, collaboration, and collectivity.<span class="m_3427684469140718691apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Let me know if you have any questions, and feel free to send curious folks with queries my way.
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thank you so much!</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Joey</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Arizona State University</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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